The Portland daily press., 1887-10-22
THE STATE.
ARoosrooK COUNTY.


The trotting horse. Col Dyer, owned by
Mr.. Whitney, In Caribou, has been sold ~
Mr.. Wheeler, Of Bridgeport, c.. for 1900.
Presque Isle is to be lighted by electricity
very soon.
A monsser bear has been butehering sheep
In Ashland.
A few days age George Sutherland, Jr..
met moose In the road In Ashland. Mr..
Sutherland happened 10 have a revolver
with him with which ne shot and killed the
animal.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Transfers in pine timber lands having
been recently made In Chesterville; IL Is ex-
town VIII be cut next winter. Parties are
already negotiating for the delivery Of all
that Is standing en- the Fellows lot.
The Pennington Normal School opened
Oct. 11th with one hundred and ten pupils
in attendance. The entering class numbers
fifty and more are expected. The new build
ing which has been added 10 the old one,
makes one Of the finest school buildings In
the State. There are two new teachers this
term; Miss Swift, class Of SO, teacher Of the
Medical school In place Of Mrs Warner, who
resigned last spring, and Miss TOzler, class
OF 81, teacher OF Latin and composition.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Coombs. the Lewiston architect. has con-
traeted 70 furnish plans for the new build
ing at the State Insane Hospital at Augusta,
this winter. 1t will be pavilion I5ox5O and
four stories high.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The Boothbay Register says Mr.. Hiram
SpOff0rd has sold IndiantOwn Island, 10 q.
b. Kenniston for $1,000 A syndicate Of
Bar HarbOr capitalists will soon proceed to
improve the natural advantages.
Mr.. Charles Tabor, locomotive engineer
on the Knox Il Lincoln railroad, was serious
ly injured at WoOlwieh one day last week.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
At Dead River, last Monday, Harry Lane
and j. G. Harlow left their camp to look at
some timber. They sat down behind a tree
top IN walt till the chopper and swamDer
came up. When the latter came they
and fired one shot hit Harlow about half an
inch from the jugular vein and seven hit in
the tree he was leaning against.
WASHINGTON COUNTY. ~~-~-
The Oldest man In Washington county Is,
without doubt, Francis Anthony, who lives
In Mllltown. He was born In March, 1887,
and although more than 100 years old he
prepares and takes into his hoyse the most
OF his fuel and does other light work He
has pr0fuse head Of black hair with no
sprinkling Of gray. He Is a little hard OF
hearing, his eyesight Is quite good, and he Is
as vigorous as some men at seventy-One.
One Of the most important weddings Ia
calais this season was the marriage this
week Of Miss Grace Ina Young and Mr..
Frank Porter Woods, junior member Of the
firm Of VIM. Woods q Co., OF Calais. The
Second Baptist church was handsomely de-
corated for the ceremony.
In the past month there have been entered
at the custom house in Eastport 1880
bushels Of potatoes brought In from the
Provinces.
There Is not a ton Of coal for sale In East
port, vessels expected not having arrived.
The sardine factories in Eastport are run
ming steadily now and are buying fish al
lower price than at any time before ia the
season. The factories have no Idea Of clos
ing until December when the law cOmpels
them TO, as the close time for herring com
mences then.